Abby Wambach

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

She's won at the World Cup, Olympics, in the Pros, and at the NCAA level. Few athletes in any sport have ever matched this feat. This is Abby Wambach, one of the greatest goal scorers and clutch players of all-time. Abby is far more than what she's accomplished on the pitch. She's a best-selling author, motivational speaker and activist. Her autobiography, Forward, released in 2016, became a New York Times bestseller. And her second book, Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power and Change the Game, based on her viral commencement speech at Barnard College, was also a New York Times bestseller in 2019. On the show we talk about how she was able to transcend sports into a new career, how she confronted her struggles with addiction, how she rediscovered love and communication in relationships with her partner (and bestselling author) Glennon Doyle, and last but not least, the lessons from the biggest moments in her athletic career that thread through each of her steps in life today. I can't think of a better advocate for sports, gender equality, a more empathetic, confident yet humble human being, and a true leader through thick and thin. I hope you enjoy my next episode with Abby Wambach.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? Welcome to an all-new suiting up podcast presented by public.com and
0:07.8	out systems. This is episode number 10 of season three, and I'm your host Paul Ravel.
0:12.9	Today's show features one of the greatest athletes of our generation. I know I say that week
0:17.9	over week. This person dominated the pitch since she was first given a ball at age four.
0:24.1	Then just a year later, when she was five, playing organized ball for the first time,
0:29.0	she scored 27 goals in her first three games, then was moved up age groups and over to the
0:34.0	boys side. That's some prodigy stuff right there. Abby Wombach was an all-everything.
0:39.4	Player of the year and everything in high school, literally too many awards to run through in this
0:42.7	intro, though she did herald from a bit of a lacrosse town in Rochester, New York,
0:47.2	Roche Vegas, gotta give a shout out to all those in the upstate. And instead of going to the 15
0:52.5	time NCAA champion in North Carolina, she surprised everyone in committed to the University of Florida.
0:58.8	The home of Gatorade, where she won a national championship with the underdogs as soon as her
1:03.5	freshman year. And on the show, we talk about Abby's world cups, Olympic medals,
1:08.1	pro soccer career that span different teams, leagues and hundreds and hundreds of goals,
1:12.8	though Abby is far more than one of the greatest and winningest soccer players in history.
1:16.9	We spend a lot of the time on the show talking about her beginnings from the coaching moments that
1:21.6	molded her as a great teammate to hard-hitting lessons from legends like Michelle Acres,
1:27.2	to the most challenging of her career. And she calls also the most rewarding when she was moved
1:32.7	from a starter to a supporter in her last world cup that tested her leadership resolve from an
1:38.6	all-new angle on the pitch. And of course, we do reminisce on that header heard around the world
1:43.7	in the final seconds of a world cup match against Brazil. We talk about that and everything from
1:48.4	relationships, awareness, support in the community, and building a wolf pack, lessons designed
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